Thanks do much for your replies! The pain has been sufficiently numbed by the prednisone and she has started to eat again. SubQ fluids is out of the question unless I were to find an army of expert handlers to help me. Unfortunately because I've doped her up, whatever I give her I won't know if she's responding to it or not until the steriods are gone in a few days. They should last in her system (given G/I) for about 2 days, then I will give her a remedy. She has been under tremendous strain lately so I like the cham suggestion to help her chill out, that I could probably give her tonight. I'll try to come up with more symptoms to confirm nat mur or hepar and post tomorrow. Thanks again for your speedy replies!!!!!